Stevie Smith Quotes

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

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• I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Know
  • Written
  • Arts

• I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Career
  • Night
  • Victory

• I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Negative

• I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Home
  • Values
  • Warrior

• Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Internet

• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Man

• Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Long
  • Character
  • Funny

• When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Work
  • Great
  • You

• I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • People
  • Politics
  • Drawing

• If it's boring, then it's tiring.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Boring
  • Then
  • Tiring

• There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

  

  Xenophanes
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Emotional

• Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Life
  • Free
  • Fate

• I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Hope

• It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

  

  James Whistler
  • Time
  • Long

• Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • World
  • Comedy

• You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Die
  • Fall

• We procrastinated in the U.S., it's true. And we are changing that.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • True

• Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?

  

  Laura Harring
  • World
  • May
  • Fashion

• As a citizen of the United States, I am ready, willing, and able to bear arms for this country.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • Country

• At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

  

  Johnny Damon

• Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Business

• I'm married to Metallica.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Married
  • Metallica

• All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Communication